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After a four month Haitus, Weaver Nine is updating again.
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Author: u/Prezombie *
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Score: 24
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Created: 2014-12-19T16:09:21
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u/Thinker6 [+19] (13 hours later)
Thanks everyone for your comments - I'm glad you liked Weaver Nine! I probably won't be able to update often, but I'll see if I can manage to make an update once in a while.
Also, to answer your comments:
Eliezer was pretty justified in guessing that it was complete - the fic was at a fairly good place for a stopping point (albeit a bit abrupt). That said, I personally don't have a preference for fics that are 'complete' vs 'incomplete'. Real life doesn't always have clear-cut endings, and if you write an interesting setting, there will always be more interesting stories to tell. So I'm not sure that I'll ever declare the fic to be officially 'completed'.
Thanks for your feedback about the fic in this and the previous thread, both the positive and the negative. You make a good point about the pace of the Leviathan fight. The fic isn't written in a way that makes it easy to do a perfect fix, but I have a few tricks in mind that should help me fix this a bit for a polished final version of the fic. I've been posting the edited/improved version on FanFiction.net and Archive of Our Own chapter by chapter.
u/literal-hitler [+2] (a day later)
My main problem with incomplete things is trying to figure out what's going on when it updates. Reading Weaver Nine, Tale of Transmigration, Security, and the Worm Time Loops means if I just read the latest chapter(s), I'll probably miss things due to not remembering which events happened in which universe.
u/chaosmosis [+2] and with strange aeons, even death may die (4 days later)
Links to the last two?
u/literal-hitler [+2] (4 days later)
u/TimTravel [+2] (a day later)
I think part of the problem was I read it too fast because I was procrastinating pretty hard. I did like it a lot overall.
u/OffColorCommentary [+1] (a day later)
What's the best place to bookmark to keep tabs on updates? The Spacebattles thread?
u/Thinker6 [+3] (a day later)
Right, the spacebattles thread is best for now. The only problem is that if you 'watch' the thread on spacebattles you get alerts whenever anyone makes a post, there's no way to limit the alerts to story posts.
After I finish uploading the edited version to ff.net and ao3, my plan is to release new chapters simultaneously on all three sites. Then you can follow/subscribe on ff.net or ao3 if you just want to get alerts about new chapters.
Edit: OK, the ff.net and ao3.org versions are basically up to date (except one chapter that I intend to edit a lot for the polished version). So you can follow/subscribe to the story there. It may be a while before I can update again, but we'll see what I can do!
u/elevul [+1] Cyoria Observer (14 days later)
Thank you for fanfiction.net, but could you make an .epub of all the chapters until now, please?
u/Thinker6 [+1] (15 days later)
No problem! I actually also posted the story on Archive of Our Own link, where you can download it in .epub format. See the 'Download' button at the top of the story page.
u/elevul [+1] Cyoria Observer (15 days later)
Thank you.
u/gabbalis [+4] (2 hours later)
It's a Christmas Miracle!
u/templetopple [+2] (4 hours later)
yes yes yes THIS IS EXCITING. I read it under the impression that it was finished, and so was kind of bummed when there wasn't a proper end.
u/DaystarEld [+2] Pokémon Professor (5 hours later)
This... looks really good. Dammit. I did not need a new thing to read just now! shakes fist
u/Prezombie [+2] (6 hours later)
It is. One of my favorite Worm Fics, it really captures the spirit of the original story and characters, without feeling samey.
Also, It has the best Leviathan Fight I've ever read.
u/OffColorCommentary [+3] (a day later)
I actually thought the Leviathan fight was the worst part!
I thought the rest of the fic was fantastic, then Leviathan just went on forever without really letting the interesting parts of the fic (Jack being manipulative, Weaver being terrifying and well-organized, various people being in the wrong place) make an appearance.
u/None [+2] (9 hours later)
It was a genuinely enjoyable Endbringer fight, when I usually hold that pretty much every Endbringer fight in canon was just kind of boring.
u/eaglejarl [+1] (2 days later)
+1
u/TimTravel [+2] (8 hours later)
Awesome! I just caught up a few weeks ago. I liked it a lot. The Leviathan fight was great but it was a little too exhausting to read. There was an Extra Credits about this sort of thing for games / movies (I'd definitely recommend it but I'm too lazy at the moment to look up the link): if there are small drama breaks, like when Skitter does some medical duty in the canon Leviathan fight or when she meets with the lazer dude in the Behemoth fight then it works much better that way for the pacing. There was one but it could have done with another brief interlude about what was happening at the hospital, for example.
I like Mouse Protector. She's cheesy (hehe).
u/thedarkone47 [+1] (an hour later)
So um, what's this story about?
u/loonyphoenix [+7] (an hour later)
It's a Worm fanfiction in which Mild spoilers. It was recomended a while back on /r/rational, and more recently by Eliezer Yudkowsky in an HPMOR progress report (mistakenly identifying the story as "finished").
u/TimTravel [+2] (8 hours later)
Yeah, I was wondering about that. It was at a pretty good stopping point but there were definitely major plot things that hadn't yet been addressed.
u/Jace_MacLeod [+1] (7 hours later)
Just finished reading up to this point a few days ago. Excellent timing.
u/frodo_skywalker [+1] (a day later)
I also first saw this on EY's progress report. It's excellent, and I'm glad to see that it's active again.
u/JackStargazer [+1] Primordial Apologist (a day later)
So I just blazed through this in a few hours.
Amazing.
I'm going to have to go and actually finish Worm now. I liked this Leviathan fight a lot better than the Canon one however.